Jesse Bering Claims Lesbians are Funnier Than Straight Women, Thinks...
Jesse Bering just can't get enough of that sociobiology. This time, in a post about how an allegedly tiny number of female humorists are "crowded out on the roster of female comedy all-stars by a long...
View ArticleTurns Out Polygamy, But Not Monogamy or Polyamory, Imposes High Reproductive...
Sooo.... If I was a pop evolutionary psychologist or sociobiologist I might spend all my time pondering how it's just seed-spreadingly natural for men to want to be polygamous. Oh, silly, me....
View ArticleIf a Sufficient but Simpler Solution is Preferable Then Terri Conley's...
There's a lot of buzz in the press and blogosphere about a study by Professor Terri D. Conley of the University of Michigan called "Perceived Proposer Personality Characteristics and Gender Differences...
View ArticleOn Hitchens' Mistake and Rule #2: Laughing Men Rarely Beat Up Juveniles and...
So Ta-Nehisi Coates started a fairly short post calling bullshit on the notion that women aren't funny.I haven't finished this Tina Fey piece on Fresh Air yet, but as I've said, my readings of Jane...
View ArticleWhere's the Ev. Psych Paper Claiming Women Evolved to Be Hornier on Weekends?
While talking about how it's often pretty relevant for researchers to know where a woman is in her menstrual cycleEmily Nagoski nevertheless keeps things in perspective. [T]he literature on something...
View ArticleWhy London School of Economics Should Consider Dismissing Satoshi Kanazawa
Note: Satoshi Kanazawa used the generic catchphrase "black" in the post I'm about to discuss. Since it's not clear from his context whether his racism was directed at people of African, or...
View Article"Nature" Vs. Natural Opportunity: Powerful Women As Attracted to Adultery as...
Back in April Echidne said of the incontrovertible biological "fact" that women's interest in men is exclusively related to men's wealth, status, or powerAs long as women are, on average, poorer than...
View ArticleYou Don't Really Need Evolution to Explain Sexting... Which Is Good Because...
Sungold uses reactions to the Rep. Weiner cybersex scandal to emphasize a far more "scandalous" but actually utterly mundane fact about "sexting." (emphasis mine) I wouldn’t be able to give [reporters...
View ArticleThe Trials and Tribulations of Role Reversal as Heterosexual Couples Age...
In the course of hitting the nail on the head about sex and aging, Joanna Cake also perfectly outlines why the Unified Field Theory of pop Ev-Psych is so wrong radar won't find it.If you are in a...
View ArticleOne of Terri Conley's Six Myths Probably Helps Shape the Other Five
Feministing blogger Maya summarizes Terri Conley's debunking of six common gender-essentialist myths. Follow the links to read the rest. The last two myths really stood out for me. 5) Men like casual...
View ArticleMaybe Researchers Only Have Two Hands: About Evolutionary-Psychology Theories...
On the one hand they say men are "naturally" attracted to younger women. On the other hand they say men are "naturally" attracted to women with big boobs. On the third hand, however, almost all...
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Mmm, Mmm Good! Ten Years Later Reporters *Still* Finding Gordon Gallup's...
Photo by Flickr user Trevor Coultart. Used under a Creative Commons license. So my heart sank when I read the headline at Medical Daily: How Oral Sex or Having Sex Without a Condom Can Be Good For...
View ArticleMen as the "Sex Class:""Not Particularly Choosy"
In a Huffington Post, err, post hypothesizing about (white? western?) men's fascination with women's breasts Larry Young and Brian Alexander reference the old sociobiology canard about men. Something...
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Actual Researchers Prefer Not to Speculate, But For Ev Psych the EADR Gene...
Image by figleaf published with a Creative Commons license. So some evolutionary biologists, Yana G. Kamberov and Pardis C. Sabeti, recently published a paper about a relatively recent (only 35,000...
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Rules of Desire: Evolutionary Psychologists Getting More Nuanced But No More...
Photo by Flickr user The mofoJT. Used under a Creative Commons license. Now if you only the abstract below you might conclude the only possible explanation for women "evolving" same-sex desire was...
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